Improvement in fabrics for the manufacture of shoes



Y mas WAITE. or FRANK-L N, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent N0. 107,642, dated September 20, 1870.

. IMPROVEMENT 1N1 FABRICS FOR THE MANUFACTURED? snons, 8cc.

MOM-*- The Schedule referred to these Letters Patent and making part ofthe same,

pait,'andII do hereby declare the same to be fully described as follows:

The saidiabricistobe composed of wool, or like material, capable ofbeing felt-ed, and one or more other fibrous materials, .such asbuckskinor leather scraps, such 'aswill combine or connect withthe wool,,In making'thej fabric I usually take aboutsixty pounds of wool andforty pounds of buckskin, ofthe scraps thereof, as usuallymade byglovers in cutting buckskin, to bemade into gloves. These substancesIput into a paper-pulp grinder, and by such reduce y the. wholewitlrwaterto a pulpy'state, after-which the pulp so formed is to befrunthrough a paper-making machine, and, by such, be reduced to asheet orsheets,

as paper or paper-board is usually made. Next," while the sheet soformed is in a wet state, it is to be subjected to theiaction of afelting-machine, so as to felt thefibers of wool, thefelting beingcfl'ected as'cloth is usually felted; or, instead of felting the sheetit may heisubjected to the .to'full the fibers.

action of a falling-mill, in order' Sometimes I apply to either or eachof the sides of the sheet, before felting it, one or more thin layers ofwool, and felt or full the whole together.

This completes the fabric. To form it into a shoeupper or other article,it, while wet or moist, is to be pressed on or into a mold, suitablyconstructed, for

giving to the materialthe necessary shape, and heat is to be employed inor applied .to the mold, so as to either wholly or partially dry themolded article while therein. l

By such a mode of operating, shoe or boot-uppers, and various otherarticles may be manufactured to great advantage.' Such shoe-uppers,after being made,

may be-soled in any well-known suitable manner.

I claim as of my invention- 1. The new article of manufacture or fabric,made substantially as described. y

2. Theprocess herein set forth of making the said new fabric. 3. Ashoe-upper, or other warticles, as made of such new fabric, in a wet'state, and by means of a mold and heat and pressure, as set forth.

ENOCH VAITE.

I Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, S. N. PIPER.

